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Hey there, I'm Rick Heins, the amp guy at Fender.
>> I'm Stan Cotey, a product designer at Fender.
And we're here to talk about the Mirror Image Delay pedal.
A unique and special delay built specifically by us from Fender.
Stan, can you tell us about this?
>> Yeah.
It's a digital delay.
It's got different sounds to it.
It's got three different sets of algorythms.
It's got a really simple, easy to navigate feature set.
The user interface is one knob per function.
So it's really easy to fly around on.
And we can kind of walk through the features and some of the sounds.
Rick'll play a little bit while we check some stuff out.
Three different sets of algorithm.
There's digital type delays, analog and tape delays.
We'll go through them one at a time.
Let's start with the digital delays.
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The digital delay is a straight up pure delay sound.
It's just more of your same signal.
There's two variations of it.
The second variation is actually a double tracker, which is really fun.
So it'll provide a second tone along with me playing.
And it kind of randomizes it a little bit.
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So you can kind of hear some tuning and pitch variations in there.
We'll switch over to the analog delay now.
This is the first analog delay.
The first one is a little cleaner than the second one.
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All of the delays have modulation so I'll add some modulation.
And you can hear the natural chorusing that happens.
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And of course you could change the rate of that.
So you could turn that in more of a vibrato.
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I'll flip over to the second variation, which is, again, kind of dirty,
noisier delay.
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worse there.
Okay now we'll go look at the tape delay.
Tape delay is on this incorporated aspects like wow and flutter and
noise from the actual tape path.
And a little bit distortion as well.
So here's the first tape delay
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Just like with the analogue delay the second variation is lower audio quality.
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On the tape delays the modulation controls control the aspects of the wah and
flutter.
They control the randomness of it.
Which is kind of fun.
So that's the basic feature set.
Along with that there's a cool thing where there's a whole second delay in
engine running inside.
That's set to be a dotted 1/8th note to this delay.
This quarter note.
We'll start with it off.
I'll turn it on and then turn it back off again.
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One of the cool features of this pedal is it uses a mixed bypass method.
Where when you turn the pedal off.
It actually lets the delay portion of it stay intact.
It just routes your guitar around it.
So you could be at the end of a solo and playing.
And when you kick the delay off, the tail of the solo will decay naturally.
Mean while you could be playing a shorter rhythm part.
Rick will show you that.
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One of the great features about the mirror image delay is that it actually has
a flipdoor on the front end.
That means you can get to the battery really easy.
So if you're playing live and you need to get to the battery,
replace it or whatever.
You can flip that open.
Magnetic, it seals back up.
Also, you probably noticed that the knobs have... they're lit up.
So you can actually see them when you're playing live and figure out.
Where your favorite setting are at.
You can turn that off if you don't need it.
The other this is that there is staggered input and output.
So when you've got your pedal board going.
And you're stacking pedals next to each other.
It's going to fit a little bit closer.
Because you're not butting up against other cable.
Which is a really great feature.
Thanks for checking out
the mirror image delay.
Stay tuned for more videos.
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